Left main and multivessel disease

The proposed manuscript is an intriguing sub-analysis from the recent SYNTAX Extended Survival (SYNTAXES) study, where the Synergy Between PCI With Taxus and Cardiac Surgery (SYNTAX) was investigated.

A 74-year-old female with a history of peripheral artery disease, atrial fibrillation and type 2 diabetes presented to our outpatient clinic with atypical angina and shortness of breath on exertion...

The authors present a case of PCI for left main trunk bifurcation divided by a flap-like structure in a 67-year-old man suffering from effort angina, in which they successfully used a novel tracking technique by modifying the reverse controlled antegrade and retrograde tracking (CART), which they called...

View the discussion of this case between Salvatore Brugaletta, Kalaivani Mahadevan and Thomas Johnson.

In OCT-guided PCI, observing an aorto-ostial lesion is impossible as it requires blood clearance, and the material of the guiding catheter used is not near-infrared transparent. Using a Telescope®-guiding extension catheter, the authors successfully acquired an OCT image throughout the soft polymer tip and the relatively wide...

View this case of a 79-year-old woman complaining of atypical chest pain for 3 months, with diabetes and end-stage chronic kidney disease. Coronary CT revealed diffuse calcifications BUT critical coronary artery stenosis was excluded...

Watch this case of an 81-year-old female with no prior history of CAD who presented with unstable angina. The patient had recent acute coronary syndrome and baseline angiography shows multivessel disease.

The objectives of this case are:

1. Assess your patient as a whole package!
2. Lesion preparation is key for...

View this case of an 85-year-old woman, hypertensive under medical therapy with no previous medical or surgical history, who called the emergency services about chest pain and shortness of breath...

Struggling to keep up with the mass of scientific information in interventional cardiology? On this page you will find a selection of recent articles published in major journals in the field - use it to guide your reading!

Consult this session to discover the key clinical data and angiographic reference of a patient presenting with calcified left main lesion PCI.